This week, I angrilly returned back to PC. After ordering the new magic cable (for $99!!!) and being promised back in October that it would be 4-5 weeks… I’ve given up on this whole Apple experiment. This confirms the fear that’s kept me from converting to Apple in the past – you are beholden to one company for your hardware, and at any moment they can screw you.

So… I am back in the land of PCs… and actually quite happy. Overall, I feel incredibly foolish for wasting so much money and time when the PC world was there all along with everything I needed.

Sorry Apple. All the hype and the cult following does nothing for me. Maybe I’ll check back again in a couple years.

I agree with your point – I’ve been buying Apple since 1994 and I always remember getting a staggering number of cables in the box for all manner of useful conversions – the best I remember was a male-male 3.5mm audio cable which was a completely unexpected windfall to have included.

I also think that the market of people who buy the 30″ display either a) need it for their jobs or b) would dead like one.

Personally I’m in the second category since I’m only an amatuer photographer but if I needed the 30″ display to be productive then I might scrape together the extra money to buy it, considering it a business expense which would pay off gradually over time – it wouldn’t be a simple decision to sink so much more money into it because it would be money that didn’t go to something else.

The difference between even 24″ and 30″ monitors for me is a decent second camera and adding this adapter starts to put it into very nice lens upgrade territory, a professional photographer needs to take that into account when they buy anything and they might not feel that the bigger monitor and cable for it is worth foregoing a lens for.

The 4-5 week delay is a -very- long time for an expensive product which may be used for someone’s work. It’s a long time to have your fantastically cool FPS accessory to be sitting on the desk blank.